Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, on Sunday refused to hold the Iranian tanker Grace 1 at the request of the United States. This is another diplomatic failure of the United States in relations with its main ally in Europe, writes FT. The Gibraltar authorities detained a large (2.1 million barrels) tanker on July 4 on suspicion of violating the EU sanctions regime - transporting Iranian oil to Syria.

Oppositionist, unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Ilya Yashin wrote that he was again detained at the exit from the special detention center after serving another administrative arrest. The reason for the new detention is “calls for uncoordinated actions on August 18 and 19.” Quote. “At the exit from the detention center, he was again detained by soldiers of the 2nd operational regiment.” This is the third consecutive arrest of Yashin “on departure,” Meduza notes.

Brexit without an agreement threatens the UK with a shortage of fuel, food and medicine, apart from a severe border, port and domestic political crisis, the government of the country believes. We learned about these fears thanks to the leaked dossier on the topic "Operation Oatmeal" (Yellowhammer), which outlines the consequences of a "hard" Brexit and the government's proposed countermeasures, writes The Sunday Times.

The owner of the Airports of Regions holding Viktor Vekselberg and State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin today took the first flight to Saratov's new Gagarin airport in economy class, Vedomosti reported . The Boeing 737-800 Pobeda, which opened this route, simply does not have a business class, the newspaper notes. But the flight attendant on this flight was the general director of Pobeda, Andrei Kalmykov, who has a license.